Clarification from the agency

Your application will be considered if you are a: • GSA Employees in Region 8 • GSA surplus or displaced employees in the local commuting area who qualify for the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) You must be serving on a career or career-conditional appointment, or under a noncompetitive Special Appointing Authority which provides for conversion to a permanent position in the Competitive Service.

We are currently filling one vacancy but additional vacancies may be filled as needed.

As a Realty Specialist (Leasing), your duties will include:

• Manage highly complex realty projects in collaboration with and in support of customers.
• Serve as expert technical source for cost and price analysis to develop negotiation position and throughout the project.
• Provide expert guidance to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, policy, developing best practices, providing training and ensuring stakeholders are informed throughout all phases.
• Serve as Technical Representative to Contracting Officer for contract and other realty transactions to include, but not limited to, policy, scope of work and legal compliance as well as overseeing the accuracy of the contractor activity.
• Plans and contracts for major acquisitions involving varying issues and concerns in sensitive or unpredictable situations, ensuring the terms and conditions are acceptable within private industry and comply with federal laws, regulations and statutes.
• Acquire real property and/or manage federally owned, leased or delegated space utilizing complex real estate work.
• Prepares, maintains and ensures the accuracy of acquisition plans and strategies, milestone charts and schedules to include legal documentation, realty transactions and key business documents.
• Serves as a Project Manager for highly complex projects working with an interdisciplinary team from development through delivery.

Conditions of employment

• US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
• Meet all eligibility criteria within 30 days of the closing date
• Meet time-in-grade within 30 days of the closing date, if applicable
• Register with the Selective Service if you are male born after 12/31/1959

If selected, you must meet the following conditions:

• Receive authorization from OPM on any job offer you receive, if you are or were (within the last 5 years) a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch.
• Serve a one year probationary period, if required.
• Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 4 investigation level).
• Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position

Qualifications

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held  each job (from month/year to month/year)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time).    

If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume.

For a brief video on creating a Federal resume, click here. 

The GS-13 salary range starts at $89,417.00 per year.  

To qualify, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level or higher in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is managing a wide range of large scale, complex, and/or high visibility real estate transactions for commercial office space by researching, interpreting, and applying knowledge of real estate laws, regulations, and practices. This experience must include performing the following:

• Lease acquisition including negotiating, preparing and executing real estate contracts;
• Conducting market surveys and real estate site inspections;
• Performing real estate project management using project management tools to manage projects from inception to closeout;
• Conducting cost analyses for real estate transactions and;
• Monitoring lease transactions and documents for procurement and financial accuracy
• Analyzing and providing technical advice and direction in the development and implementation of real estate policy

Quality Ranking Factor:

Quality Ranking Factors (QRFs): QRFs are knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that could be expected to significantly enhance performance in a position, but are not essential for satisfactory performance. Applicants who possess such KSA's may be ranked above those who do not, but no one may be rated ineligible solely for failure to possess such KSA’s. The Quality Ranking Factor for this position is the ability to acquire and maintain a warrant, which includes formal training, experience (on the job training) and a minimum of 24 semester hours (or equivalent) of business college coursework or a bachelor’s degree.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be scored on the questions you answer during the application process, which will measure your possession of the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities.  Your responses to these questions must be supported by your resume or your score may be lowered.  

• Ability to acquire and maintain a leasing warrant as well as complete all requirements for the appropriate GSA Leasing Certification Program which includes formal training, experience and completion of either a bachelor's degree or completion of at least 24 semester hours (or equivalent) of business coursework.
• Mastery of Federal real estate principles, techniques, laws, rules, and regulations to provide sound and authoritative technical guidance and interpretation on all issues related to the real estate program; to analyze and resolve conflicts in policies, rules, and regulations when controversial issues are involved; and to provide compliance review.
• Expert analytical skills, including expertise in applying a wide range of qualitative and quantitative techniques, to provide expert and authoritative guidance to solve complex and controversial issues, related to the real estate acquisition and space management program.
• Skill in communicating effectively in writing and orally to plan and implement strategies to develop comprehensive business documents for realty projects.
• Knowledge of customer relationship management tools, initiatives and evolving software tools to aid in varied business assessments and customer needs management.
• Expert skills and mastery of cost and price analysis to forecast costs, evaluate prices and to determine complicated strategies for projects involving greater financial risk to the government.
• Project management skills to review specific project/program goals and objectives; monitor the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones and evaluate overall program accomplishment and significant contributions in terms of agency goals.
• Expert knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing scope, schedule and budget on large scale projects.
• Expert skill in coordinating complex agency issues and needs, adapting to frequently changing requirements, and dealing with high level business, industry and/or government officials.
• Mastery of negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of contract administration techniques sufficient to evaluate contractor proposals and prepare pre-negotiation strategies.
• Knowledge of contract types, methods, and techniques including cost and incentive contracting, award fee, cost sharing arrangements, processing of unsolicited proposals, multiple awards, etc.

Additional assessments may be used. If further assessments are used, you will be provided with instructions.   
 
If you are eligible under GSA’s Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), you must receive a score of 85 or higher to receive priority.